This works only when your device is locked, and does not affect alarms. Use Settings > General and turn on Do Not Disturb to silence notifications during the times you specify. You can also mute the volume with the volume button: Hold down the lower end for about two seconds. Lex Friedman’s guide to muting notifications. To override the setting, or mute the iPad when the Side Switch is set to Orientation Lock, see the details in In Settings > General, under Use Side Switch To, tap Mute. On an iPad, use the Side Switch to mute button ringers and alerts it doesn’t affect music or other media. This also mutes Calendar and Reminder alerts, most games, and other sound effects (including the camera shutter) but not alarms-an important point if you’re sitting in the On the iPhone, flip the Ring/Silent switch to kill the ringer it will still ring through headphones. When your iPhone is ringing, hit either volume button to temporarily mute it this also works for FaceTime rings on any device. Luckily, no matter your default setting for the volume buttons, they will always control the volume of the current game. A game remembers its own volume setting from its previous use if it’s been sitting in the multitasking bar. Some newly launched games inherit the volume level from the last game app you used. Many games are set to the Ringers and Alerts volume when you first run them some interact with that setting if you change the game volume. If you’re using headphones, it’s their volume that’s altered, not the device’s speaker, and the volume icon notes that.Īs for controlling the volume in games, that’s complicated. If Ringer and Alerts is turned off, you get the unlabeled icon that stands for general audio. With Ringers and Alerts as the default, press a button when you’re on a Home screen with no music playing and the icon is labeled Ringer (on the iPhone) or Sound Effects (on other devices). The volume icon that appears when you use the buttons helpfully indicates what you’re adjusting.
These changes affect the overall volume setting for that category, not just temporarily or for the current sound.
Conversely, when media volume is the default, you can change the Ringer volume when an alarm is playing. If, for instance, you’re in the Music app, the buttons change the media volume even if you’ve set them to control Ringers and Alerts this happens even if the music controls are merely showing, on a Lock screen or in the multitasking bar, with no music playing. The volume buttons “just work” most of the time because they’re context-sensitive.
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